Obs.–1 [var. of flatery, FLATTERY after the analogy of FAINTISE.] = FLATTERY.

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c. 1440.  Generydes, 4040.

        To here answerd the Sowdon in this wise;
‘Ye say full trew, it may non other be,
With his fayre wordes, full of flatrise,
he hath deseyuyd now bothe yow and me.’

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